Education Law
Oct. 15, 2018
The ‘Trump bump’ of the sixties: how politics shapes law schools and the lawyers they create
Law school applications shot up in the late 1960s. Fifty years later, they are rising again.
Hundreds gathered outside UC Hastings College of the Law on May 11, 1970 in opposition to the Vietnam War. At the time, law school enrollment had spiked as a result of the political climate as with the "Trump bump" now.
After several years of plummeting law school enrollment, applications are on the rise again. Some say it's a natural progression of recovery after 2008's market crash. Others call it a "Trump bump," a surge spurred by students' concerns about the tumultuous political climate following President Donald Trump's election.
Either way, the effect is significant: for the 2018 academic year, law schools saw a nearly 9 percent jump to 61,00...
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